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Posted on 06/02/2017 12:52:41 PM PDT by Olog-hai
Peter Wohlleben’s bestselling book claims that trees can talk to one another and have relationships and social structures. A petition started by German academics is now circulating to denounce these “fairy tales.”
“Trees are very social beings,” says German forester Peter Wohlleben; “the parents, the ‘mother trees’, look after their offspring…they like to stand close together and cuddle.” They also talk to each other, have sex, form friendships and feel physical pain, he told the Canadian documentary series “Intelligent Trees.”
Wohlleben’s bestselling book “The Hidden Life of Trees,” caused a stir at Britain’s Hay Festival of Literature and the Arts this week. He encouraged the crowd to think of nature in human terms, comparing cutting off branches to “cutting your fingers, it hurts” and culling trees to allow new saplings to grow was like killing human parents to give children more room in the house. The festival sold out of his book within minutes of his talk, according to The Guardian newspaper.
But a growing number of German academics are crying foul — and now two science professors from the Universities of Göttingen and Freiburg have gathered thousands of signatures to protest “the conglomeration of half-truths, biased judgments and wishful thinking…not based on scientific evidence,” that Wohlleben is promoting. “Even in the forest, it’s facts we want instead of fairy tales,” says Freiburg’s head of silviculture, Professor Jürgen Bauhus.
“It’s pseudoscience,” Bauhus told DW. “It uses selective and biased observations to support the story he wants to tell. There’s also a lot of conjecture. He has abandoned good scientific practice.” …
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In 1941 they were putting people in ovens.
Now they are concerned about a tree feeling pain and having sex.
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I wonder if this idiot will be proclaiming that trees are sentient while Abdul is lopping off his head....
When I read this, words fail...I just had to shake my head...
How do some people manage to exist????
Per Dante, some end up in Hell as "The Wood of Self-Murderers" (illust. by William Blake)
It is a postmodern return to animism, where in primitive societies people talk to trees and plants. His book should sell out in places like California with all the alienated postmodern types. A very shrewd form of hucksterism.
You beat me to it...guess some hippie can still make living riding on a fantasy author’s coat tails...(and, for the record, I’ve enjoyed reading Tolkien’s work more than once - but fantasy is all it is.)
Well - actually a large plurality of Germans are conservative and normal. They are just out numbered.
Animal, vegetable, mineral.
So, we are left with eating rocks.
Let me check.....
... no, that's out too.
Well pretty soon, Germany will start importing trees from all over the world, forcing groves of elms to be cut in half to make room for scrubs brush from North Africa and other parasitic plants from the middle east.
We live in a wonderfully stable and prosperous society at the moment, guaranteed by the Pax Americana. Problems and contradictions are papered over by massive debt and printed money. That complacency and decadence also leads to a lot of nonsense and ridiculous and dangerous ideas that sprout and grow, which are not confronted because its just not worth the effort.
so... in leftist la la land... trees can feel pain... but unborn babies cant?
wow... just wow!
And if its a palm tree would that be date rape?
Do they bark? Exchange rings?
Animals eat plants and other animals. According to the left, humans are NOTHING BUT animals. Therefore humans eat plants and animals. This is known as nature. How things work.
Leftist is the denial of human nature.
I am Groot!!
So...Tree-Beard is real?? Cool!
Trump's Fault!!
Do immigrant trees rape native trees?
Somehow I just knew it would be THAT video before I even clicked. This is a classic.
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